Soloing Dungeons is Bugged

IndianaJames7 · January 11

I decided an efficient way to get boxes for the event is to just solo normal fungal grotto 1 killing only war chief ozazi and kragh, running past everything else. After killing kragh I am of course still stuck in combat so I go to clatterclaw to get him to kill me so I can res out of combat and port out... however I cannot res. My screen says 'waiting for the battle to end...' as though there are other members in my group that are still alive... but there are not. Please fix this. If you are the only member of your group and you die in a dungeon you should be able to res at the start.

IndianaJames7 · January 11

I can't even log out, I have to alt tab and end task for eso/ completely relog just so I can do anything.

Royaji · January 11

That's not related to soloing. The same thing can happen even when a full group wipes (even a 12-man in a trial).

There's just some problem with fights not resetting after a wipe.

IndianaJames7 · January 11

Royaji wrote: »

That's not related to soloing. The same thing can happen even when a full group wipes (even a 12-man in a trial).

There's just some problem with fights not resetting after a wipe.

Oh, haven't experienced this in a group before... RIP

ChunkyCat · January 11

Stop trying to cheat the system.

Ragnork · January 11

Lisutaris · January 11

Enemies you've left alive are trying to catch up/killing/targetting you. Therefore, you are still in combat.

Don't skip and if you do... don't fail and die. Problem solved.

Nothing wrong with the game here,just your gameplay. Different story if that happens in cyrodiil...but same issue like mentioned above...
FOR EXAMPLE - > healing or buffing or.... When some1 has aggro from "paul the guard" of alessia... Yay incombat until paul resets and stops glaring at you from 200m distance. Some1 buffed paul again.... Stare intensifies. Nooooooo. ~end of story

Lady_Linux · January 11

That's what you get for skipping.... Stiop skipping... It takes more time to deal with the errors of skipping content then it does just to face it. Every time.

IndianaJames7 · January 11

Lisutaris wrote: »

Enemies you've left alive are trying to catch up/killing/targetting you. Therefore, you are still in combat.

Don't skip and if you do... don't fail and die. Problem solved.

That is not correct. Successfully completing the dungeon does not fix the issue, as you will 100% still be in combat from enemies still alive in the dungeon. I went back after final boss was dead to bloodspawn (which is always supposed to take you out of combat) but instead it basically locked my game (which should never happen).

IndianaJames7 · January 11

Lady_Linux wrote: »

That's what you get for skipping.... Stiop skipping... It takes more time to deal with the errors of skipping content then it does just to face it. Every time.

Why do you care if I skip? Would you rather I fake queued as tank to run dungeons? Even if I had premade a group, you cannot even requeue for a dungeon without it bugging so you have to break group and reform which would probably end up taking longer that just completing the dungeon myself.

Stop pretending like ZOS' bugs are a players fault for their choice of gameplay. How I choose to run dungeons on my own does not affect other players in any way.

Ye_Olde_Crowe · January 11

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Why do you care if I skip? Would you rather I fake queued as tank to run dungeons?

I solo-tank dungeons (yeah, I know it's awkward but I currently have no other char who can solo dungeons) AND I skip when on a tight schedule, and I ran into this issue for the first time today... though not in FGI but Wayrest Sewers I where I didn't skip anything (or did I? The croc perhaps, but I don't remember).

Never happened before, but perhaps that 's because I never wiped in one of the easy dungeons before. - Anyway, as I lay there dead I watched Allene's adds run around fighting something I couldn't see, and I thought 'huh? I'm dead, so who are they fighting?'. I briefly suspected my clannfear of having cheated death somehow, but as I said I couldn't see anybody. The mobs were just running around, shouting and hacking at ... whatever, who knows. After about two minutes they had bested their imaginary foe, and I was allowed to rise from the ashes and fight Allene again.

Dusk_Coven · January 11

Ye_Olde_Crowe wrote: »

The mobs were just running around, shouting and hacking at ... whatever, who knows

Very interesting. Sounds like a meant-to-be-invisible trigger or workaround used by the programmers is not working as intended.

IndianaJames7 · January 11

Ye_Olde_Crowe wrote: »

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Why do you care if I skip? Would you rather I fake queued as tank to run dungeons?

I solo-tank dungeons (yeah, I know it's awkward but I currently have no other char who can solo dungeons) AND I skip when on a tight schedule, and I ran into this issue for the first time today... though not in FGI but Wayrest Sewers I where I didn't skip anything (or did I? The croc perhaps, but I don't remember).

Never happened before, but perhaps that 's because I never wiped in one of the easy dungeons before. - Anyway, as I lay there dead I watched Allene's adds run around fighting something I couldn't see, and I thought 'huh? I'm dead, so who are they fighting?'. I briefly suspected my clannfear of having cheated death somehow, but as I said I couldn't see anybody. The mobs were just running around, shouting and hacking at ... whatever, who knows. After about two minutes they had bested their imaginary foe, and I was allowed to rise from the ashes and fight Allene again.

Interesting... perhaps if I removed my dark shade from skill bar this bug wouldn't happen... though in my case the dungeon was locked for 5+ minutes before I just decided to restart eso

Thanks, worth a shot

Lisutaris · January 11

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Lisutaris wrote: »

Enemies you've left alive are trying to catch up/killing/targetting you. Therefore, you are still in combat.

Don't skip and if you do... don't fail and die. Problem solved.

That is not correct. Successfully completing the dungeon does not fix the issue, as you will 100% still be in combat from enemies still alive in the dungeon. I went back after final boss was dead to bloodspawn (which is always supposed to take you out of combat) but instead it basically locked my game (which should never happen).

Can't you just teleport out of it? Skipping isnt intended (pov dev).
I agree that you should play like you want but if you run into problems because you play in a way thats not intended, they are also your problems and only your own.

If you want to rpg and abuse the **** out of /s or /y thats also a choice and the game will kick you for spam.
In this case the npcs are the wrath of devs that hate ppl skipping their work. 😂

I am also running dungeons solo and after 2-5 grps i will stop and aoe them. Never had these problems..
only when being lazy and jumping over cliffs, rivers,...

IndianaJames7 · January 11

Lisutaris wrote: »

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Lisutaris wrote: »

Enemies you've left alive are trying to catch up/killing/targetting you. Therefore, you are still in combat.

Don't skip and if you do... don't fail and die. Problem solved.

That is not correct. Successfully completing the dungeon does not fix the issue, as you will 100% still be in combat from enemies still alive in the dungeon. I went back after final boss was dead to bloodspawn (which is always supposed to take you out of combat) but instead it basically locked my game (which should never happen).

Can't you just teleport out of it? Skipping isnt intended (pov dev).

No, because you cannot port while dead or in combat.

Also, I tried unslotting the shade and replacing it with cloak and didn't have this issue last run. So my guess is this 'stuck in combat unable to res while dead bug' is somehow tied to familiars maintaining some form of aggro after you die as suggested above.

Cundu_Ertur · January 11

There's probably a swarming mudcrab scurrying around trying to catch up to you.

Elsonso · January 11

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Lady_Linux wrote: »

That's what you get for skipping.... Stiop skipping... It takes more time to deal with the errors of skipping content then it does just to face it. Every time.

Why do you care if I skip? Would you rather I fake queued as tank to run dungeons? Even if I had premade a group, you cannot even requeue for a dungeon without it bugging so you have to break group and reform which would probably end up taking longer that just completing the dungeon myself.

Stop pretending like ZOS' bugs are a players fault for their choice of gameplay. How I choose to run dungeons on my own does not affect other players in any way.

It's not a bug. Your strategy to bypass the bosses is not working. Go back and kill the bosses and mobs that you aggroed as you zoomed to the end. Those mobs are still looking for you.

I solo run this dungeon, and never once have I been stuck in there. I don't kill all the bosses, either. I do kill the ones that I aggro.

redspecter23 · January 11

For FG1, there are minibosses that are likely still aggro'ed on you. That is what is preventing the rez, though they should all rubberband when you die. It's possible that the NPC goblins are keeping them in combat. That's just a guess.

When I solo, I pull to each boss, stack on the boss and kill, then move on. I'll do the waterfall skip, kill Kragh and if I've done it right, there should be no combat remaining. If you are still in combat you can run through the back tunnel (that you would use in FG2) and just walk out the front door.

IndianaJames7 · January 11

Elsonso wrote: »

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Lady_Linux wrote: »

That's what you get for skipping.... Stiop skipping... It takes more time to deal with the errors of skipping content then it does just to face it. Every time.

Why do you care if I skip? Would you rather I fake queued as tank to run dungeons? Even if I had premade a group, you cannot even requeue for a dungeon without it bugging so you have to break group and reform which would probably end up taking longer that just completing the dungeon myself.

Stop pretending like ZOS' bugs are a players fault for their choice of gameplay. How I choose to run dungeons on my own does not affect other players in any way.

It's not a bug. Your strategy to bypass the bosses is not working. Go back and kill the bosses and mobs that you aggroed as you zoomed to the end. Those mobs are still looking for you.

I solo run this dungeon, and never once have I been stuck in there. I don't kill all the bosses, either. I do kill the ones that I aggro.

My God... I understand that I'm getting stuck in combat because unkilled enemies are aggroed; that is not the issue. The issue is that when you wipe, they are supposed to reset and allow you to res but instead my game became locked and I had to entirely control-alt-delete and restant eso. Did you even read what I wrote?

Royaji · January 11

Elsonso wrote: »

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

Lady_Linux wrote: »

That's what you get for skipping.... Stiop skipping... It takes more time to deal with the errors of skipping content then it does just to face it. Every time.

Why do you care if I skip? Would you rather I fake queued as tank to run dungeons? Even if I had premade a group, you cannot even requeue for a dungeon without it bugging so you have to break group and reform which would probably end up taking longer that just completing the dungeon myself.

Stop pretending like ZOS' bugs are a players fault for their choice of gameplay. How I choose to run dungeons on my own does not affect other players in any way.

It's not a bug. Your strategy to bypass the bosses is not working. Go back and kill the bosses and mobs that you aggroed as you zoomed to the end. Those mobs are still looking for you.

I solo run this dungeon, and never once have I been stuck in there. I don't kill all the bosses, either. I do kill the ones that I aggro.

It is a bug. When the last group member (in this case just you) dies all enemies should de-aggro, boss fights should reset and you should have an option to ressurect either on the place with a soulgem or at wayshrine. But this is not happening. Instead you can't rez because the game thinks that you are still in a fight and in combat. Despite you laying right there on the floor, dead. I've seen the same happen in trials. Twelve dead players, respawned bosses and no option to rez.

This post also applies to all the other "yOU ShOuLDn'T sKIp!1!1" people.

Or are you going to argue that this is intended?

Elsonso · January 12

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

My God... I understand that I'm getting stuck in combat because unkilled enemies are aggroed; that is not the issue. The issue is that when you wipe, they are supposed to reset and allow you to res but instead my game became locked and I had to entirely control-alt-delete and restant eso. Did you even read what I wrote?

Your strategy is wrong. You tried to fix it by wiping. That is not the right answer. Try a different one.

Linaleah · January 12

there are goblins in FG1 that the game thinks are part of your group. it can take them a while to get killed off, as they don't skip anything. my personal strategy is to make sure I'm OUT of combat before pulling Kragh. haven't failed me yet. (yes I skip, and yes, when I solo it, its usually on a pet sorc)

FierceSam · January 12

Skipping in FG1 is probably why all the later dungeons are such corridor races rather than open spaces (and all the more boring for it)

OP seems to want to cheat/skip/game the dungeon to acquire loot more quickly and then wants ZOS to ‘fix it’ when this strategy fails....

ZOS might argue that the dungeon will work fine if he just kills all the bosses

mustangmorgan31 · January 12

FierceSam wrote: »

Skipping in FG1 is probably why all the later dungeons are such corridor races rather than open spaces (and all the more boring for it)

OP seems to want to cheat/skip/game the dungeon to acquire loot more quickly and then wants ZOS to ‘fix it’ when this strategy fails....

ZOS might argue that the dungeon will work fine if he just kills all the bosses

How is skipping some of the bosses cheating? So if I go into Wayrest I and not go into the other room to kill the mini boss, I am cheating because I am skipping? No. I don't think so. get a clue. They are OPTIONAL.

Alienoutlaw · January 12

if you have pets or any summoned attack that engages away from you this can cause mobs to hold agro if you skip, best thing to do if you want to skip large mobs is die to them and run through whilst in ghost form thereby resetting the agro each time

Dusk_Coven · January 12

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

however I cannot res. My screen says 'waiting for the battle to end...'

So many people didn't read. They just want to comment, act clever, collect forum points like farming achievements. Look! People even celebrate it. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/507552/pie-king-earned-his-8th-forum-star

This thread is an excellent example of why the community at large should be ignored by ZOS and for very good reason.

MajBludd · January 12

Almost sounds like stuck in combat bug that you'll get in cyro. If that is what is happening i feel sorry for you. Good luck

SJD_Phoenix · January 12

All these “StOp ChEaTiNg”

Dude is literally feeding back that when he dies he cannot resurrect. He’s the only one in the instance so therefore all aggro should drop. The context behind it doesn’t matter. This is legitimately not working as mechanically intended.

Jesus H Christ a lot of you just want to lecture someone. May I suggest seeking fresh air instead?

Hamish999 · January 12

I use my magplar for soloing stuff, if I am planning to skip anything I always pop an invisibility pot so I don't aggro anything as I run past.

Elsonso · January 12

SJD_Phoenix wrote: »

All these “StOp ChEaTiNg”

Dude is literally feeding back that when he dies he cannot resurrect. He’s the only one in the instance so therefore all aggro should drop. The context behind it doesn’t matter. This is legitimately not working as mechanically intended.

He is not using the dungeon as it was intended, either. In all the times I have soloed, and died, in that dungeon, I can recall no time where I have been stuck unable to leave the dungeon, or unable to resurrect in the dungeon, because I am still in combat. There be a bug there, but he is creating the situation where the bug appears. He is trying to skip combat in the dungeon in order to quickly get to the boss, kill it, and get the reward.

This dungeon is not so long that one really needs to do that.

We cannot fix the bugs. If this bug has been in there for years, chances are that ZOS is not going to fix it, either. It seems to be an easy bug to avoid, so I suggest doing that.

Major_Lag · January 12

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

After killing kragh I am of course still stuck in combat so I go to clatterclaw to get him to kill me so I can res out of combat and port out...

This is a really bad idea, for the reason you have already discovered. Don't do that.

If you need to port out of the dungeon while still stuck in "combat", a much better option is to queue for Cyrodiil (works at all times, even when in combat) and just use the wayshrine to leave Cyrodiil as soon as you are transported there.